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Octr. 1. 1785 on Board The Passage Boat from Pisa to Leghorn

Count Verri, Author of the Meditazioni sulla Economia
Politica, is retired from Milan to Rome. He had begun a
General history of Italy, and even printed 15 or 16 Sheets of it;
but partly through indolence, partly through timidity, altered
his mind, called in the Sheets and burnt them; This I had
from Tomaso Masi Book seller & Printer at Leghorn, by
whom the Sheets were printed. I see an answer to Verri's
Book petulantly violent. It promises so ill, I don't
know whether I shall encumber myself with it. I saw
and bought a violent sortie against, the Roman Law,
against which I am still more violent, by an anonimous
Author so old as 1773. Masi told me it was by a Count
Castellamore of Turin, who was obliged to fly his Country
for it, he retired to Venice where he lives still

Upon Enquiry about the Masked Myrmidons, I was informed
by a man too low and too ignorant to be partial, who
had travelled all over Italy, that in Tuscany & the Venetian
the Custom had existed time immemorial, he remembers
it in Tuscany long before the accession of the present Grand
-Duke. I saw such a Mask at the Comic Opera at Florence,
but none at the serious, which is at a different house.
at a Public Concert at the Play house at Leghorn a saw
none: In the Gardens of the Polazzo Pitti, it is true I saw
nobody. I was there from half hour after 12 to 2, which
certainly cannot be the general hour for walking; near
the Gate sate a Military Officer stationed apparently as
centinel, the sight of me, tho' evidently a foreigner, did
not appear to excite in him the smallest curiosity. However
young Sir H. told me that the G. Duke, & his Ministers,
was infected to a great degree with that sort of Curiosity;
one of them took notice to him once of his being seen
with an Opera Girl from Naples whose name I have forgot:
true, says he, I keep her, and what is That to you? —
He speaks with great Contempt of the G. Duke, and says
the People hate him & he them. upon enquiring for
grounds, after as close an examination, as I could
take with decency, I could not find any so much as

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Date_1	1785-10-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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